poordick Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 (edited) Has anyone else been modifying the XComNameList.ini file? I was planning on compiling lists of the 100 most common names per country and inserting those entries into the namelist file. When I tried replacing out the American name list using US census and SS administration information, I had the weird experience of foreign troops (particularly English and German soldiers) generate with American names. Previously, I had never seen that happen. Anyone have a similar experience? (This could definitely shoot my auxiliary idea of inserting the names in multiple time to create a realistic, proportional, name generation list in the foot.) Edit: I've attached my XComNameList.ini (renamed XComNameList.txt) just in case someone wants to take a peek at it. Edited October 14, 2012 by poordick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poordick Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 I guess no one else has? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bomoth Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 hey that's a great list. I'm gonna use it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdwtomcat Posted October 17, 2012 Share Posted October 17, 2012 I made an app that pulls names from Facebook and creates that file. I haven't had an issue with too many names yet. Here's a link to the GitHub repository for it: Link Its pretty simple, you login with Facebook and it pulls down the names. You click the button, save the file, and replace the default one in the game installation directory. Remember to make a backup so you can get your old names back. The main problem is that you can't pick male names for male soldiers and female names for female soldiers. You end with weird names a lot of times. I find that its still fun anyway though. The app is C#, .NET 4.0. Still needs some work and testing obviously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poordick Posted October 18, 2012 Author Share Posted October 18, 2012 hey that's a great list. I'm gonna use it ! Thanks - but I'd like to do more work with it. If you are using it, could you let me know if you had the same issue I had - if American names start showing for other countries? It seemed most noticeable with German soldiers. I made an app that pulls names from Facebook and creates that file. I haven't had an issue with too many names yet.Here's a link to the GitHub repository for it: LinkIts pretty simple, you login with Facebook and it pulls down the names. You click the button, save the file, and replace the default one in the game installation directory. Remember to make a backup so you can get your old names back.The main problem is that you can't pick male names for male soldiers and female names for female soldiers. You end with weird names a lot of times. I find that its still fun anyway though.The app is C#, .NET 4.0. Still needs some work and testing obviously. Believe it or not, I don't use Facebook. How many names does it pull and file? and are you sorting them by country of origin? or are all the names showing up for just one country? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddballE8 Posted October 18, 2012 Share Posted October 18, 2012 I edited all the Swedish (well... norwegian... grrr...) names to include only first and last names of people i know... that way i might actually get them randomly :D However, i stayed with the default number of names, so i cant comment on wether or not that bugs the game. I would really love to know where the nicksnames are tho... those would be fun to modify. (other than doing it manually in-game i mean). BTW. You are modding the file in Documents/my games/xcom right? not the one in /steam/steam apps/common/xcom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poordick Posted October 19, 2012 Author Share Posted October 19, 2012 I edited all the Swedish (well... norwegian... grrr...) names to include only first and last names of people i know... that way i might actually get them randomly :D However, i stayed with the default number of names, so i cant comment on wether or not that bugs the game. I would really love to know where the nicksnames are tho... those would be fun to modify. (other than doing it manually in-game i mean). BTW. You are modding the file in Documents/my games/xcom right? not the one in /steam/steam apps/common/xcom... Thanks for the input! I've not had any issues altering the number of names if I stick to the default number of names - I've only had issues by increasing the number of names. Regarding nicknames, the only place I've heard of them being is here: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/808100-adding-or-subtracting-nicknames/page__view__findpost__p__6468999 And I am modifing the file from ~/Documents/my games/xcom/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyrod Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Has any of you guys found where each country is bound to a specific prefix name in the names file? For example, German last names are prefixed with:m_arrGmLastNames Following the list there are some countries that don't have entries of their own (Brazil, for example, inherit Spanish names). I'm looking for a way to add sections for countries that don't have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyrod Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Nevermind, I found it in the class XGCharacterGenerator. Unfortunately it can't be changed by configuration. In the beginning of the file there's the definition of each country and which list of names to use. Most of them are boring but I can see Russia and Ukraine using the same list, and Mexico, Argentina and Brazil using the same list. The other interesting parts of the script show that in the case of South Africa and Nigeria if the race of the soldier is caucasian, the name comes from either English or Dutch list of names, and if it's black it comes from African list. It's possible to see also the definition of which races to use for each country (caucasian, hispanic, african and asian). In the case of US it can be any race, in case of UK it can be only caucasian or african, and many others like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caiman Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Interesting insight in how Firaxis perceives the world. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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